Shows/1998-04-28

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Links:

• The Baltimore Sun show preview

Setlist: (incomplete and likely out of order)

• Sapphire Bullets Of Pure Love
• Everybody Conga
• No One Knows My Plan
• Battle For The Planet Of The Apes
  • Maryland My Maryland
• To All The Girls I've Loved Before

Encore:

• Georgy Girl

They Might Be Giants
— with Lincoln opening —
Bohager's in Baltimore, MD
April 28, 1998 at 8:00 PM

Fan Recaps and Comments:

Tickets were $20.

Robert J. Plass:

Anyway, it was the usual set, but there were some interesting things:

- "Sapphire Bullets" (first time I ever heard it live! cool!)

- "Maryland" (the Linnell State Song), which he messed up the lyrics a little, but I was there with Matt James of the Maryland Colony, and he was real happy to hear his state song!

- "Georgie Girl" as a stand-alone song during the encore.

- Ev-ery bo-dy con-GA! I'm not fuck-ing kid-DING! Peo-ple in the front ROW! I'm not fuck-ing kid-DING!

- The voCorder on "All the Girls I've loved before"- cool.

- During "Battle for the Planet of the Apes," instead of chanting, "People!" and "Apes!", we chanted, "Towson!" and "Dundalk!", which are two VERY different parts of Baltimore; you kind of have to know Maryland to get the joke. I used to live there, so I was in on it...it was nice that they tailored the concert to the setting, doing the Towson/Dundalk thing and singing the Maryland State Song!

Overall, an EXCELLENT concert!

One post-script: We waited around for like an hour after the show, hoping to find John and John, but to no avail. So, we gave up, I left and drove around the block just once to see if maybe... And sure enough, I saw some fans snapping pictures of a car driving right outside Bohager's. So, I did this drunken sweeping U-turn at about 50 MPH and floored it. At the next light, there was Hal in the back seat, some guy driving I didn't recognize, and John in the front seat! So I honked and he waved and I rolled down my window and yelled, "Hey John! Thanks for a great show!" and meanwhile you could barely hear me because I was blasting "Nothin's Gonna Change My Clothes" at 1000dB!